A Warrington businessman has been charged with drugs trafficking, money laundering and plotting to inflict grievous bodily harm.
Haulage firm boss Thomas Maher is accused of trying to smuggle €900,000 in " criminal property" and Class A drugs into Ireland.
The 39-year-old faces two charges of importing class A drugs into Ireland, two of money laundering, and one of conspiring to cause GBH.
Maher, of Wiltshire Close, Woolston, is said to have conspired alongside Nathan McGinn, Paul O'Brien, Jason Reed and "others unknown" to smuggle the drugs between March and May this year.
He is also charged with conspiring alongside O'Brien, Reed and others over one money laundering charge relating to €300,000 in cash.
The second money laundering charge states he conspired with Reed, Thomas Rooney, Catherine Dawson and others in relation to an amount of €600,000.
The final charge states that between April 21 and April 29 this year, in Warrington, he conspired alongside Ronan Hughes to cause GBH to an unnamed person.
Maher is the director of Thomas Maher Transport Ltd and New Hair Don't Care beauty salon in Fearnhead, Warrington.
He appeared at Warrington Magistrates' Court on Monday for an initial hearing, and is due back at the same venue on June 22.
He has been remanded into custody.
